Nuclear. Next Generation Nuclear CDT. Collaborating with Manchester, Lancaster, Leeds and Liverpool Universities, we work with all the UK’s major industrial and regulatory bodies to develop future research leaders to support the UK’s strategic nuclear programmes.

Solar PV. The Photovoltaic CDT is a multicentre team composed of seven universities – Liverpool, Bath, Sheffield, Loughborough, Southampton, Oxford and Cambridge – that train highly-skilled students capable of transforming state-of-the-art research and development across the sustainable energy and PV sectors.

And a further three CDTs with strong relevance to energy:

Control and Systems Engineering. Centre for Doctoral Training in Control & Systems Engineering. Systems and control theory plays a crucial role in modern science and technology as well as in economics, management and even politics. It is applied to everything from predicting wind turbine gusts, to designing smart grids and optimising power networks.

Sustainability.Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures& Project Sunshine. Established with a £2.6m gift from the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, the Centre funds Grantham Scholars to advance the science of sustainability and connect it with the policy debate around how humans can live in a more sustainable way.

Tribology. Centre for Doctoral Training in Integrated Tribology. Tribology is all about friction – the science behind how things move and slide over each other. It is fundamental to the modern world, including for more efficient car engines and wind turbines which rely on healthy bearings and gearboxes.

Metallic Materials. TheCentre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Metallic Systems works closely with industry on all aspects of metallurgy and metals manufacturing. Challenges in energy and sustainability include the development of advanced metallic materials and manufacturing technologies for nuclear power and renewable energy; lower energy processing and near-net-shape manufacturing; resource efficiency and recyclability.